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July 23 Locations & Details (so far)

ARCATA / BAYSIDE, CA:On Thursday evening, July 23rd, come to the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship to watch the excellent new film ‘Breaking Down the Box’ (40 min). We’ll have refreshments and discussion afterwards with KHSU radio host Sista Soul and other special guests! The film event is hosted by the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Social Action Committee and PARC, Peoples’ Action for Rights and Community (Eureka).

Earlier in the day (location & time will be posted soon), join us in Arcata. We’ll hand out literature for people to get educated and involved now to STOP THE TORTURE that is solitary confinement. We will also be promoting the Agreement to End Hostilities.

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS:The Coalition for Effective Public Safety – CEPS is engaging in public actions the 23rd of each month to bring attention to the 80,000+ people held in solitary confinement across the U.S. on any given day and to end solitary confinement. This date emphasizes the 23 or more hours every day that people are kept in solitary confinement. Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition (PHSS) has helped launch statewide Coordinated Actions to End Solitary Confinement in California following the Pelican Bay hunger strike initiated in 2013 by people incarcerated there in response to the deplorable conditions they were being held in. Monthly actions began in California in March 2015, and we started here in Massachusetts in June 2015.

Massachusetts is one of only three states where prisoners who commit disciplinary infractions can be placed in solitary confinement for up to ten years, even though the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture has called for a ban on any solitary confinement that lasts longer than fifteen days.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS:The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) estimates that 2,500 – 3,000 people are held in solitary confinement in Illinois on any given day. The Federal Bureau of Prisons plans to open Thomson Supermax Prison in Thomson, IL by the end of the year, bringing 1,500 new solitary cells to the state.

The United Nations considers solitary confinement beyond 15 days torture and has called for its absolute prohibition. Many people in Illinois and throughout the US have spent decades in solitary. We say NO MORE.

All those opposed to solitary confinement are invited to rally on July 23rd outside the Thompson Center, home of IDOC before marching to the Federal Building. We demand an end to the torturous practice in Illinois, by both the state and federal government. We demand that the Illinois legislature hold a hearing to investigate solitary confinement, or what they call “Segregation” or “Administrative Detention”. We demand Thomson close its doors, as Tamms did 2.5 years ago.

This action is in solidarity with anti-solitary activists in California who have been organizing actions, events, teach-ins, and more on the 23rd of every month as part of a statewide campaign to end solitary confinement. They’ve chosen the 23rd of the month because people held in solitary spend at least 23 hours/day in isolation.
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Learn more! Read about Uptown People’s Law Center’s lawsuit against IDOC for their overuse of solitary confinement. Here’smore info on Thomson Supermax. Chicago Action Details
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm CDT
Location: RALLY @ Thompson Center, 100 W Randolph St, Chicago, Illinois 60601, MARCH to Federal BuildingFacebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/511219215692757/

CULVER CITY / LOS ANGELES, CA:Two years have passed since people confined in California’s Pelican Bay State Prison initiated (on July 8) a 60-day hunger strike to protest the conditions associated with the prison’s “security housing unit,” or SHU. Four years have passed since the initial hunger strike began on July 1.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) continues to claim that “there is no ‘solitary confinement’ in California’s prisons and the SHU is not ‘solitary confinement,'” but people inside the Pelican Bay State Prison’s security housing unit say they remain locked in for at least 23 hours per day.

At this event, we will present If the SHU Fits-Voices from Solitary Confinement, and follow with a session to:
* Share Stories
* Discuss Strategies to make meaningful change and
* Take Action!

The event is a part of the Statewide Coordinated Actions to End Solitary Confinement, a call by prisoners in solitary to their supporters outside to STOP THE TORTURE with events on the 23rd of each month, signifying the number of hours prisoners are kept in solitary.HERE‘s the Culver City/LA flier!Culver City Action Details
Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm PSTLocation: Peace Center, West 3916 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City, CA90230
Contact person: Andy GriggsFor info, call 310-704-3217 or email lalaborfest@gmail.comFacebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1453616404940842/

NAPLES, FLORIDA:Demonstration in front of the Collier County Jail on the 23rd to End Solitary Confinement. Details will be posted here soon!

Every day in New York prisons and jails, there are more than 5,000 people in solitary confinement and other forms of extreme isolation. There, they spend 23 hours a day locked in a cell about the size of an elevator. In isolated confinement, people are left with nothing to do, no programs, no one to talk to, and no human touch. In these torturous conditions, people experience intense suffering and, often, severe psychological and physical damage. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture determined that keeping a person in solitary more than 15 days is torture; New York regularly holds people in solitary for months and years, and sometimes decades.

Join us on the 23rd of every month in the fight to end solitary confinement. We are joining allies around the country who are holding monthly actions based on the recommendation of people incarcerated in Pelican Bay prison who led the momentous hunger strikes in California.People in solitary need you. Together we can HALT solitary confinement and end torture in New York State.New York City Action DetailsTime: 6:00pm ESTLocation: Union Square- meet by steps on south side, by E. 14th and BroadwayContact email: caicny@gmail.comWebsite:http://nycaic.org/

OAKLAND, CA:
Thursday evening, July 23rd, the San Francisco MIME TROUPE will perform at Oakland’s Lake Merritt in back of the bandstand.

Please come volunteer to help set up the model SHU (mock solitary confinement cell) beginning at 3:30 PM.

We will distribute information and people can get a feel for the small space that 10’s of thousands of people are confined to 23+ hours a day, often for years.

Please call Penny (cell: 415-412-1969) to let us know if you can be with us for this important date. As the trial in the Pelican Bay class action lawsuit approaches in December, the public needs to know current news and see the model SHU again.

Join us in fasting for some or all of the July 23rd in protest of the 23 hours of solitary confinement that tens of thousands of prisoners endure every day for months and years. Add your group to those committed to taking an action each month.

SAN DIEGO, CA:Two years ago in this month, over 30,000 CA prisoners went on hunger strike to stop the torture of solitary confinement. We honor them and will continue in this struggle until solitary confinement is no more. We will be out on the 23rd of the month, talking with people and providing information to END SOLITARY CONFINEMENT. Please come join us for an hour after the work day.San Diego Action DetailsTime: 6:30pm – 7:30pm PSTLocation: Rosa Park (park is next to the library) City Heights, San Diego 92105Contact Person: Martha Esquivel Contact Email: emartha42@yahoo.comFacebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/403818803138425/

SAN JOSE, CA:As part of the Statewide Coordinated Actions to End Solitary Confinement on the 23rd of July: we will distribute literature, hold signs, and put up a banner with signs on it — to END SOLITARY CONFINEMENT and to End Israeli Occupation of Palestine. Please join us.San Jose Action DetailsTime: 5:00pm – 6:00pm PSTLocation:San Carlos Street @ corner of Market Street, south end of Cesar Chavez Park in downtown San Jose
For more info, call 408-569-6608
Contact Person Name: Donna Wallach
Contact Person Email: Palestineis@dslextreme.com

SANTA CRUZ, CA:Thursday July 23rd, join a coalition of individuals and organizations as we gather for an action in front of O’Neill to stand up against Solitary Confinement, in solidarity with other coalitions all over California and nationwide!
First, we will leaflet and talk with passersby. Then, a noon RALLY with updates on Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement and SB 124 to Define and Limit Youth Solitary Confinement. We’ll also have a Readers’ Theater of the Agreement to End Hostilities, Free Lunch from Food Not Bombs, Free Literature, and a model SHU food tray.

July 8th marked the second anniversary of the beginning of the 2013 Hunger Strike to end solitary confinement and abusive prison conditions. It was the largest Hunger Strike in world history. with over 30,000 people in CA prisons & 100’s of other prisoners throughout the U.S., of all genders, young & old, participating. This Prisoner-class-led Human Rights Movement falls within a long legacy of prisoner-led resistance & is connected to global struggles against inequality and powerlessness, and for self-determination and liberation.

We do not want people in prison to have to risk their lives in another Hunger Strike! Take Action. End Solitary Confinement. It is Torture.

SANTA MONICA, CA:
Friendly Neighborhood Action Committee (805) is honored to join in the Statewide Coordinated Actions Against Solitary Confinement. Join us at the Santa Monica Pier on Thursday evening beginning at 7PM. We will be pamphleting in service of the struggle for dignity and humane treatment of prisoners. This effort will take place during the FREE concert series, “Cubanismo,” 200 Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica CA. As we enjoy the music, let us honor those behind the walls; promote an end to racial hostilities, and fight to end torture.Santa Monica Action DetailsTime: 7:00pm PSTLocation: Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica CA 90401Call 805-850-8327 for meet-up

THUNDERCLAP
Expose and End Solitary Now!Think Ten Media Group has created a Thunderclap campaign for July 23rd, National Day of Action to End Solitary. The goal is to simply raise awareness of the harsh realities of solitary confinement. It would be great if you could join us now in this effort. It literally takes less than 30 seconds and costs absolutely nothing. Our collective social media “clap” will go out on July 23rd at Noon, PST. You can join us at http://thndr.it/1BQxSFJ.

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